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(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 1. A. MALKOFF & A. & V.-PASKIN. MAGAZINE FIREARM. N0.262,803. Patented Aug. 15, 1882.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2. A. MALKOPF & A. & V. PASKIN. MAGAZINE FIREARM. No. 262,803. Patented Aug.15,188Z.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3. A. MALKOFF & A. & V. PASKIN. MAGAZINE FIREARM.

No. 262,803. Patented Aug.15, 1882.

UNITE STATES ATENT FFICE.

ANDREW MALKOFF, ANATOLIUS PASKIN, AND VLADIMIR PASKIN, OF ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

MAGAZINE FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,803, dated August15, 1882.

Application filed August 4, 1881.

(No model.) Patented in France June 14,1881, No. 143,404; in BelgiumJune 15, 1681, No. 54,918,

and in Germany June 17, 1881, No. 17,162.

To all, whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANDREW MALKOFF, ANATOLIUS PASKIN, and VLADIMIRPASKIN, of St. Petersburg, in the Empire of Russia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Oontrivances with Changeable Magazines for Guns with Sliding Breech-Bolts, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of our invention is to constructa simple attachment forbreech-loadin g guns with detachable cartridge-holders, so that the gunmay be used as a magazine-gun for quick shooting, or may be used as asingle-loader without change of parts; and this object we attain bycombining with the receiver of the gun a metallic frame, with acartridge-separator, leaving the ordinary openinginto the receiver free,however, and with this frame are changeable pasteboard magazines,segment-shaped, adapted to serve at the same time as packages forcarrying cartridgesin boxes and cases. The frame, when screwed to thegun, does not interfere with shooting with separate cartridges, and whenthe magazine is set upon it permits speedy shooting, automaticallyadmitting into the receiver, one after another, the cartridges containedin the magazines. When all cartridges of the magazine are spent thelatter is taken ofi and another filled with cartridges put in its place.This changingof magazines takes from two to four seconds of time-i. 6.,not more than for charging the gun with a separate cartridge. Themagazine(made of pasteboard) is fixed to the frame by two springs, whichare riveted to the metallic skeleton of the magazine, the latter beingprovided with a hook serving to retain the cartridges in the magazine,whereby it is rendered possible to shoot with separate cartridgeswithout spending those contained in the magazine.

According to the dimensions of cartridgeboxes adopted in the Russianarmy, the magazines are made in two sizes, and contain the large oneeleven, the small one five cartridges, the cartridge-box taking threelarge magazines, or two large ones and two small onesi. 0., thirty-threeor thirty-two cartridges. In case the cartridge-boxes are madelarger orsmaller,

the dimensions of the magazines can also be altered, their fixing to theframe andthe mode of issuing the cartridges remaining the same.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 shows a side view, and Fig. 2 a topview, of a part of the gun provided with amagazine-frame of the proposedconstriiction. Figs. 3, 4., 5,6, 7,8, and 9 are a side view, two endviews, a longitudinal section, two cross-sections, and a top view,respectively, of the magazine-frame. Fig. 10 shows one of the two screwsserving to fix the said frame to the receiver of the gun. Fig. 11 is aside view of a breech-bolt of ordinary construction, and Fig. 12 of animproved breech-bolt adapted for the action of the proposed contrivance.Figs. 13, 14., and 15 are a side view, an end view, and a section,respectively, of the handle of this improved bolt. Figs. 16, 17, and 18are a side view, an end view, and a top view, respectively, of the nosefixed to the end of the bolt, and serving to put the proposedcontrivance into action, as hereinafter described. Figs. 19, 20, 21, 22,23, 24., 25, and 26 represent a side view, opposite end views, a topview, and four cross-sections, respectively, of the separator, by theturning of which the admission of cartridges from the magazine into thereceiver is effected. Figs. 27 and 28 are a longitudinal section, and anend view, respectively, of the magazine. Fig. 29 shows the opening atthe bottom of the magazine. Fig. 30 shows one of the springs serving toconnect the magazine with the frame. Figs. 31, 32, and 33 represent aside view, a top view, and an end view, respectively, of the hookserving to retain the cartridges in the magazine. Fig. 34 is across-section of the receiver and of the gun-stock provided with theframe and magazine. Figs. 35 and 36 are cross-sections of the receiver,the stock, the magazine-frame, and part of the magazine provided withcartridges, with two difierent positions of the separator.

Figs. 1., 2, 11, and 12 show the respective parts in one-half of theirnatural size, while the other figures represent the real dimenslons.

The same parts of the gun and contrivance ance is as follows: To thereceiver A of the gun is screwed, by means of the two steel screws a M,Fig. 1, or otherwise, the frame B, (made of malleable castiron or softsteel,) whereinis placed the cartrid ge-separator, hereinafterdescribed,and which serves to connect the magazine with the gun and tolet the cartridges pass. This frame is fixed to the receiver in aninclined position, Figs. 34, 35, and 36, in such a manner that theinterior surface of the side wall; b,"of the frame', along which thecartridges roll into the gun, forms a continuation of the interiorsurface of the lateral cut of the receiver A. The opposite or upper sidewall, 11 of the frame is considerably shorter than the side wall, I), inorder to give room to and permit free action of the separator 0, Figs.19 to 26. This separator serves to separate the cartridge to beintroduced into the gun from the rest of the cartridges in the magazine,and consists of a concavo-convex 2 5 plate with two end plates, 6 and 0the foremost, 0, of which is provided with the tooth c and the hindmost,0 with the lever c and the tooth 0 whose object will be explainedhereinafter. The end plates, 0 0 are placed in corresponding recessesmade in the inside surfaces of the ends b and b of the frame B, which,besides, are provided with the screwthreaded holes b b placed oppositethe plain holes 0 0 in the end plates, 0 0 In these four holes areintrodueed screws with plain ends, serving as pivots to support theseparator in the frame B and permitting its freely turning on eitherside. The extent of turning is limited in the following manner: Theseparator O, turning downward, is limited by the tooth c of the foremostend plate, 0, which at the lowest position of the separator reposes onthe lower part of its recess. The turning upward is limited by the toothof the hindmost end plate, 0 which in a certain position meets the toothN, Fig. 4,1eft in the corresponding recess of the end I) of the frame B.The turning of the separator O is effected by a motion of thebreech-bolt D, Fig. 12, on the upper rib of which is fixed (at the frontend) the nose E, Figs. 16 to 18. This nose (made of hard steel) is seton the front end of the rib d of the bolt, and fixed on the same in thecase shown by the drawings by means of the screw 6, Fig. 18. The hindpart of the nose is sloped in a curved line, and when the bolt is movedbackward comes under the lever c of the separator, as shown in Fig. 35by dots, thus compelling the separator O to turn upward, in consequencewhereof one cartridge falls out of the frame B into the receiver A,while the next following cartridge is kept back in the magazine by theseparator. At the end of the forward motion of the bolt the convex rib eof 65 the nose E, Fig. 17, lies against the tooth 0 of the foremost endplate, 0, and when the handle F of the bolt is turned to the right,rotating the front portion of the bolt, as usual, the nose E compels theseparator to turn down,

in consequence whereof the cartridges contained in the magazine descend,and one of them enters into the frame B and is held by the separator, asshown by dots in Fig. 36.

The magazine G is composed ofa pasteboard box open at the bottom, andhaving the shape of a segment, as shown in Fig. 27, so as to be betteradapted to hold the cartridges. If the magazine has to contain 11cartridges, then the size of it is the same as "represented'in Fig. 27;but if only five cartridges the maga- 8o zine will not extend beyond thedotted line or y. The magazine is set in a skeleton consisting ofcross-ribs g and longitudinal ribs g The lower cross-rib, g, is providedoutside with the projection 9 which supports the turning hookH. One arm,h, of the hook, beinginside the magazine, serves to retain thecartridgesin the magazine, and the other arm, h bent in the shape of ahandle, is placed outside, and serves for turning the hook when the freeissuing of cartridges from the magazine is re-' quired. In Fig. 31 thishook is shown as withdrawn from the magazine. It is pivoted on avertical pin, and if the arm h is turned from right to left the arm hswings from its position across the magazine, and allows the cartridgesto freely issue from the magazine.

Near the aperture of the magazine, to the ends of the longitudinal ribs9 are fixed two springs, g 9 whereof the first is provided with the ring9 and two holes, g 9 while the second has only one hole, 9 The saidsprings tightly keep the magazine on the frame B, which, for thispurpose, is provided with the pins 11 b Figs. 6, 9, and 34, with beveledheads entering into the holes 9 g of the corresponding springs.

To take the magazine off from the frame B the spring 9 must be a littledrawn back by means of the ring 9 and the magazine G inclined a littleforward, whereby the latter may be freely taken out of the upperaperture of the frame B.

We claim as our invention- 1. The combination of the receiver and slid-1 r 5 ing breech-bolt having a nose, E, and capable of a slight rotarymotion, with a magazineframe and pivoted separator having a lever, 0 atone end and a tooth, 0 at the other, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the receiver and sliding breech-bolt having anose, and capable of a slight rotary motion, with a magazine-framehaving recessed ends and a pivoted cartridgeseparator adapted to saidrecessed ends, and I2 5 having a lever and tooth to be operated by thenose of the breech-bolt, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the magazine-frame having pins 1) with a magazinehaving at each 1 9 -IIO end springs g 9 provided with holes, and one Intestimony whereof we have signed our of the springs having a ring g, asand for the names to this specification in the presence of purpose setforth. two subscribing witnesses.

4. Acartridge-magazineconsistingofapaste- 5 board box inclosed in askeleton metal frame composed of a cross-rib, g, longitudinal ribsVLADIMIR PASKIN g and end springs, g 9 secured to said ribs, incombination with magazine-frame having Witnesses: pins on which saidsprings may catch, sub- FREDERICK KAUPE,

1o stantially as set forth. NICHOLAS TSGHEKALOFF.

